Move by Markets.com to stop paying commissions to salespeople and to automate operations follows failed attempt to buy rival Plus500 late last year.
Read moreTalking of the consolidation that has taken hold of the US Forex market is hardly bringing any news. Today saw one more piece of proof in this respect, as provider of online trading services OANDA has just announced an agreement to acquire all of the forex accounts of IBFX, Inc. (TradeStation Forex), in a transaction…
Read moreLeapRate has learned that CySEC-regulated retail forex broker FxNet has launched its new website at www.fxnet.com. The move by FxNet follows a trend which we have been covering lately of much more visual and picture-oriented home pages for brokers, where the Home Page is meant to act as a main landing page. Gone are the…
Read morePlaytech PLC (LON:PTEC) today announces the appointment of John Jackson, who joined the company's Board of Directors as a non-executive director in January this year, as Chairman of the Board's Remuneration Committee. The appointment is effective immediately. In his new role, Mr Jackson succeeds Playtech's non-executive director Paul Hewitt, who retains the role of Chairman…
Read moreTrader Workstation (TWS), the multi-asset trading platform offered by online trading services provider Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:IBKR), has just been updated, with build 955 going from beta to production. LeapRate has informed its readers about many of the novelties in the beta build, including the addition of predefined strategies to the Portfolio Builder, the…
Read moreIt was less than a month ago that LeapRate reported that Signal Start, a professional one stop shop signal service for signal followers and signal providers, released its fully featured Android application. The solution was released after five months of development and has evolved since the initial launch. The company has just announced a significant…
Read moreMulti-asset investment and trading services provider Saxo Bank has just unveiled a new co-Branded Introducing Broker (IB) partnership with Bank of Valletta, a leading commercial bank in Malta. The collaboration will see Bank of Valletta use the trading technology that underpins the SaxoTraderGO platform. The platform, named e-Trader+ powered by Saxo Bank, allows investors to trade…
Read moreThe Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) of Hong Kong today announces that it has temporarily banned from the industry Mr Jia Zhen over violations of the SFC’s Code of Conduct. He is banned from re-entering the securities and futures industry for 10 months - from February 20, 2016 to December 19, 2016. Mr Jia Zhen…
Read moreJapan and Australia based Retail Forex broker DMM FX has announced the launch of Autochartist service on its MetaTrader 4 platform. Autochartist, veteran provider of chart pattern recognition software, is now available to traders on the DMM FX MT4 platform and also via a mobile app. With Autochartist recently launching their latest MT4 Plugin which allows…
Read moreThe Board of Directors of GMO Click Holdings Inc (TYO:7177), the parent of Japanese Forex broker GMO Click Securities, has approved a dividend of ¥5.34 per share for the third quarter of the company's fiscal year to March 31, 2016. GMO Click recommended this size of dividend payments, when it announced its financial metrics for the…
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